Bolingbrook Boughton Red Light Intersection Cameras – Uneccesary Tickets
I was startled to find out that there are red light cameras monitoring the intersections on Boughton Road in Bolingbrook, IL now. These cameras are taking photograph evidence of cars at the intersection in order to write tickets. These thing they call violations are hardly so. They have been sending $100.00 tickets to people who don’t stop behind the white line (including your bumper) at the intersection and people who do not stop their car 100% behind the white line before making a right turn on red. They call both of these violations “running a red light”. That’s the worst lie for the sake of greed and money I have ever heard.
It is expected that these cameras make over $20,000.00 per month per camera, (that makes over 200 tickets per month and about 10 tickets per day.) on writing these negligible unnecessary tickets to otherwise perfectly law abiding citizens. They don’t think you are a bad person doing anything wrong, they just want more money and couldn’t get a tax referendum passed, so consider these tickets property tax payments that they can do whatever they want with in Bolingbrook. Will they pass that money on to companies of their friends that want construction and other types of contracts with the city an un-negotiated absurdly high rates? Probably. It’s not like they put these cameras up for paying for school lunch programs and tutors and after school enrichment programs. The government and police of Bolingbrook couldn’t possibly care less about the community and the well being of kids. They just care about money.
This got me thinking about how you can avoid these cameras and avoid paying 200 or 300 dollars extra every month that you could have spent paying down your mortgage. These ideas have come from the 4 people I know who have gotten these tickets and are flaming mad. Use these suggestions to help yourself avoid being ticketed by camera in Bolingbrook, and leave me a comment below about any other ideas you have about avoiding this unjust charge.
Also, I found the official press release (that I am sure no one was able to find to know this was coming) and it places these cameras as going live in May of 2007. From the Bolingbrook town site:
Press Release #07-27Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Time: 2:10pm
Topic: Red Light Cameras
Prepared By: Lt. Chris Prochut #936NARRATIVE The “RedSpeed” red-light traffic cameras located at the intersections of Boughton & Pinecrest Road and Boughton & Schmidt Road are no longer in the “warning” phase. Violators are now subject to a fine for any red-light violation. The units are complimented by large signs warning motorists that the intersection is monitored by photographic enforcement.
Two additional intersections are scheduled to receive this photographic enforcement and will become operational in the near future, in this order:
Boughton Road and Weber
Boughton Road and Route 53
5 Ways to avoid paying a few hundred dollars in fines every monthif you live in or around the Naperville, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove area:
1. Avoid Boughton Road, Weber, Pincerest Road, Schmidt Road and Rt 53 at all costs. You can most likely get to work, school, the stores (outside of Bolingbrook) and home by side streets around these camera hungry intersections. This is the most legal way to get around this, since I know everyone tries to stop behind the white line and fully before a right turn, no on intends on doing anything wrong, no one ever gets hurt, and it’s too stressful to have to worry about loosing $100.00 on your drive home from work when you are already stressed from work itself. It’s not worth the worry. Go around them. (although more are planned for other Bolingbrook intersections and in many other suburbs for more revenue soon)
2. Get blur obstruction licence plate covers. These may or may not be illegal in certain towns, but they may save you the ticket. The clear licence plate cover protects the plate from dirt and grime but it also is blurry when read from the side or above. This is usually the angle that cameras are at since they put them high where citizens can’t reach them and disable them easily. Just ask how many cameras get disabled in the UK and London each day.
3. You can take this up with the local government in the town by writing letters, starting an action group for free motoring without reconnaissance but I doubt you will get much traction because the government officials usually just care about making a lot of money and when it is from a legal source like tickets and fines, they don’t have to get vote approval from the citizens like they would for a tax increase. They use the PR line that it is only hurting citizens who break the law, and we all know that is a lie. If a cop won’t get out of his car on a rainy day to write a ticket for a violation, it’s not big enough to warrant writing a ticket for, because it’s not doing any harm or danger to anyone. (but when they make $20,000.00 per camera per month, they don’t care about if it’s hurting anyone, it makes them balance their budget and not have to say no to their friends who want business contracts with the town)
4. Elect someone else to Mayor of the town to change this policy. Know someone who would be better at the job? Maybe you? Run against them and return your town to a happier state of being. You will be a hero.
5. This may be the smartest thing to do about this yet. If you don’t live in Bolingbrook and have to go through that town, don’t spend any money there anymore at all. They don’t deserve our sales tax dollars, and I am going to give my sales tax dollars to other towns that don’t ticket me just for driving my car. No Ikea, no shopping, no gas stations, no money spent in Bolingbrook ever again. They won’t get any sales tax from people and that revenue will be hurt much more than the revenue that they gain from these unwarranted tickets.
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yea those roads are dangerous my aunt got on ticket like that in boughton
This is a great idea guys, definitely all greed.
This is exactly what I thought of greed, when my sister got hit in the crosswalk by a taxi that ran a redlight downtown. And of course, when I got t-boned in Crystal Lake. Oh, yeah, definite greed, and then of course, how it might even promote officer safety…the greed is enormous.
Yeah, somebody might be getting rich off of it, but somebody else might get to live.
Dangerous intersections cause you might get a ticket for breaking the law. You guys are shallow, dangerous means you might get hurt or killed, not fined for being ignorant.
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Hey Dave, This is in the far west SUBURBS not downtown, and there are usually no taxis in that area. If people were blowing red lights they would have put a cop on the corner and wrote tickets in person. This is about 2 inches past a line where no one ever walks because it is the SUBURBS and everyone drives everywhere. That is why it’s greed and not at all for saftey. That is just a front for PR purposes.